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3 unusual facts about orphan


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Other notable orphans include entertainment greats such as Louis Armstrong, Marilyn Monroe, Babe Ruth, Ray Charles and Frances McDormand, and innumerable fictional characters in literature and comics.

Among more recent authors, A. J. Cronin, Lemony Snicket, A. F. Coniglio, Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, as well as some less well-known authors of famous orphans like Little Orphan Annie have used orphans as major characters.

Orphan's Benefit

In 1989, an animation cel from the original Orphan's Benefit, depicting Donald being punched by an orphan, sold for $286,000 (then £174,390) at a Christie's auction in New York.


A Fire in the Sun

The title of the novel comes from "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue", a song by Bob Dylan: "Yonder stands your orphan with his gun / crying like a fire in the sun".

A Tangled Web

Margaret then sells a first edition of The Pilgrim's Progress that she inherited from Aunt Becky and uses the money to buy a house for herself and to adopt Brian, an illegitimate and lonely orphan who is largely neglected by the family.

Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī

He was born in a poor family that works in the sale a sort of dates called Tawhid (hence his surname comes), and spent the rest of his childhood as an orphan in bail of his uncle which was always offending him.

Adib Shishakli

On 27 September 1964, Shishakli was assassinated at Ceres, Brazil by Nawaf Ghazaleh, a Syrian Druze who sought revenge for his parents who had died leaving him an orphan during the bombardments of Jabal Druze.

Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea

his earliest memory was that he was an orphan from Bermondsey, in London, and that, at the age of five, in 1947, he was transported to Australia to find a new home.

Alphabet of Thorn

Nepenthe is a sixteen-year-old orphan who was found and raised by the Royal Librarians of Raine.

Amanda Balon

Amanda initially joined the 30th anniversary cast(directed by Broadway director and script lyricist, Martin Charnin) as the youngest orphan, Molly.

Armenians in Italy

Baglivi was the name of a doctor of Lecce who adopted him as an orphan of a Julfa family.

Baby Buggy Bunny

The story is about a dwarf gangster named "Babyface" Finster (a play on words on Baby Face Nelson) who, after a clever bank robbery, loses his ill-gotten gains down Bugs Bunny's rabbit hole, forcing him to don the disguise of an orphan baby to get it back.

Barbara Jeziorkowska

She is the main female protagonist, an orphan who marries Michał Wołodyjowski.

Beat the Drum

A young South African orphan named Musa (Junior Singo) leaves his AIDS-ravaged village in KwaZulu-Natal, taking along only a drum given to him by his father, for the gritty streets of Johannesburg in search of work and his uncle.

Chestnut: Hero of Central Park

Chestnut: Hero of Central Park is a 2004 American family film, starring Makenzie Vega, Abigail Breslin, Christine Tucci, Justin Louis, Tony Alcantar, Irene Olga López, Ethan Phillips, Irene Karas, Barry Bostwick and directed by Robert Vince, about a Great Dane who is adopted by two orphan girls in this heartwarming family film.

Daniel Brottier

In November 1923, the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, Louis-Ernest Dubois, asked the Congregation of the Holy Spirit to assume charge of an orphanage in an arrondissement of Paris, the Orphan Apprentices of Auteuil.

Douangdeuane Bounyavong

She is the widow of Outhine Bounyavong and has written poems, several textiles books and novels and transcribed numerous traditional stories, of which the best-known is Kam Pha Phi Noi ('The Little Orphan and the Spirit’).

Edward Pickard

His orphan school went on under the guidance of Joseph Soul to arrive in the twentieth century where it was transformed into an orphanage for the poor into The Royal Alexandra and Albert School, a boarding school in Surrey.

Entolimod

The FDA granted entolimod both Fast Track and Orphan Drug status for reducing the risk of death following a potentially lethal dose of total body irradiation during or after a radiation disaster.

Félicien David

Félicien David was born in Cadenet (Vaucluse), France, and began to study music at five under his father, whose early death however left him an impoverished orphan.

Hepatitis F virus

A subsequently-discovered virus thought to cause hepatitis was named Hepatitis G virus, though its role in hepatitis has not been confirmed and it is now considered synonymous with GB virus C and is an "orphan virus" with no causal links to any human disease.

Honey in the Horn

It is about the coming of age of an orphan boy named Clay Calvert, but it is also the about the trials of the pioneers who came to Oregon following the American Dream.

Joan of Plattsburg

The plot involves an orphan (Normand) who overhears German spies plotting in a basement near an American World War I training camp and believes that, like a modern day Joan of Arc, she's listening to disembodied voices.

John of Damascus

Under the instruction of Cosmas, who also taught John's orphan friend (the future St. Cosmas of Maiuma), John is said to have made great advances in music, astronomy and theology, soon rivalling Pythagoras in arithmetic and Euclid in geometry.

Joseph Milner

In 1855 Milner's Essentials of Christianity, theoretically and practically considered, which had been left in manuscript, and had been revised by his brother, was edited for the Religious Tract Society by Mary Milner, the orphan niece of whom Joseph Milner had taken charge, and writer of her uncle Isaac's Life.

Jules Rossi

Rossi became an orphan at the age of six and came to France to live in the town of Nogent-sur-Marne with the rest of his family.

Junior G

It features adventures of the orphan boy Gaurav Ray, who can transform to his secret identity Junior G with his magical ring.

Jupiter Sajitarius

Producer = Noah23 (exec.), Bishop Orange, King Champion, Madadam, Naval Aviator, Orphan

Kintarō

Alternatively, Kintarō's real mother left the child in the wilds or died and left him an orphan, and he was raised by the mountain witch Yama-uba (one tale says Kintarō's mother raised him in the wilds, but due to her haggard appearance, she came to be called Yama-uba).

Manay Na Ye Dil

Zainab (Deepti Gupta), an orphan who has been raised by her aunt, has since childhood been in love with her aunt's son, Shahriar (Faisal Qureshi).

Minsan Lang Kita Iibigin

Krista was raised up as an orphan by the rebels along with her brother Tiago (Lloyd Zaragoza).

Neophyte Phenotype

Producer = Noah23 (exec.), Orphan (also exec.), 3 Guts, Asterisk Autoharp, Cloev, Evan Gordon, Navigator, Ricky Bionix, Toyeone, Warhol

Nikola Lazarov

Left an orphan, Lazarov moved to the capital Sofia, where he worked as a draftsman at the Capital Direction of Public Buildings under Friedrich Grünanger, Aleksi Nachev, Mihail Hashnov and Karl Heinrich.

Oncolytics Biotech

The product Reolysin harnesses the oncolytic capabilities of naturally-occurring reovirus (Respiratory Enteric Orphan virus), which has been shown to replicate specifically in cells with an activated Ras pathway.

Orphan Kids Withdrawn Out Of This Comedy

Orphan Kids Withdrawn Out Of This Comedy is the seventh studio album by Echo Orbiter.

Overlake Christian Church

The church's Serve the World purpose is accomplished through various initiatives (throughout the Pacific Northwest and the world); the primary of which are centered on HIV/AIDS, Human Trafficking and Orphan Care.

Pamoic acid

It was demonstrated that pamoic acid has agonist activity for the orphan G protein-coupled receptor GPR35 by which it activates ERK and beta-arrestin2, and causes antinociceptive activity.

Philip Richard Fendall II

Fendall became the Editor of the National Journal in Washington, D.C. from 1824 to 1830, which was established by his close friend Peter Force (1790–1868), who at one time was Mayor of Washington, D.C. President Monroe appointed him judge of the Orphan's Court for Alexandria County.

Quarriers

In the 1890s he built the Orphan Homes of Scotland in Bridge of Weir, which were home to up to 1500 children at a time.

Rahe Tera Aashirwaad

The story portrays the life of an orphan girl who fights evil with the grace of Goddess Vaishno Devi.

Rosanne Sorrentino

Rosanne Sorrentino is a former child actress, best known for playing the role of the bossy orphan Pepper in the 1982 film of the musical Annie.

Sayyidat al-Qasr

Faten Hamama plays Sawsan, a middle-class orphan who meets Adel (Omar Sharif), a rich man, at an auction hall.

Snaresbrook

It was opened in 1843 as an Infant Orphan Asylum by King Leopold I of Belgium, and later became the Royal Wanstead School.

St Margaret's School, Bushey

The Clergy Orphan Corporation paid for a new school building to be erected on land bought in St John's Wood next to Lord's Cricket Ground, and both boys and girls moved there in 1812.

The Magic Riddle

The film tells the story of Cindy, an orphan who lives as an indentured servant to her cruel stepmother, and features elements of famous fairytales including Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty and Pinocchio.

The Nargun and the Stars

The story is set in Australia, and involves an orphaned city boy named Simon Brent who comes to live on a 5000 acre sheep station called Wongadilla, in the Hunter Region, with his mother's second cousins, Edie and Charlie.

The Wartburg Adult Care Community

However, Reverend Passavant, who had previously founded The Orphan’s Home and Farm School in Zelienople, Pennsylvania, convinced Moller of the need for a similar orphanage in New York to help the great number of children left fatherless by the Civil War.

Tosh.0

Another occasional segment is "Spoiler Alert" featuring Tosh performing a humorous rundown of an unusual movie, an edited version of the segment appears on the show while the longer uncut version is posted to the website; films featured in the segment have been Orphan, Tiptoes, and The Human Centipede, the last of which is currently the most popular video on the Tosh.0 website.

Union County, Indiana

Union County is the birthplace of Thomas Warren Bennett, Mary Alice Smith (Little Orphan Annie), Cincinnatus Hiner "Joaquin" Miller, Jay Hall Connaway, Major General Frederick Leroy Martin and Ambrose Burnside.

University of Nottingham Medical School

The Nottingham branch of Medsin supports a range of student charities - two of these, Marrow (supporting the Anthony Nolan Trust by encouraging students to join the UK bone marrow register) and the Kenyan Orphan Project (supporting several ventures in Kisumu, Kenya) have since spread to other universities in the UK.

Vesper Holly

She is a young high-society orphan from Philadelphia, the daughter of an eccentric wealthy archaeologist who disappeared while on an expedition to the Balkan state of Illyria.


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